Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.